Lana Del Rey being sued by the band radio for the closing track "Get Free" on her new album. I am a huge fan of Lana Del Rey, and this album is one of my favorites with great productions from Sean Ono Lennon. Having your album produced by the spawn of John Lennon and Yoko Ono is just incredibly awesome for one thing, and Sean Ono is fantastic on this album. "Get Free" was a beautiful closing piece for the album and although the basic melody throughout the song is very much the same chords as the song "Creep" it comes off to me as almost a cool throw back homage to the sound, but not so much that the songs even sound remotely alike. The lyrics are different of course and she sings its in her very Lana way, with her own spin and the over head production on top of the melody is completely unique. I have heard many songs where its almost to close for comfort but this in no way was like that for me.
Comparison Video - Lana Del Rey - GET FREE vs. RadioHead CREEP
What I find really interesting about this is that RadioHead was sued by a band from 1969 called "The Hollies" claiming "Creep" was plagiarized off of there single "The Air That I Breathe". The thing is they lost in court and actually had to credit Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood as co-writers of "Creep" and split royalties.
The Hollies
This all also reminds me of the Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake song "Ice Ice Baby". It was based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit and it went to court. I all fairness here the basslines are slightly different, but only by one note in the sequence.
As a artist and singer songwriter this is my take on the whole thing. WTF who cares, its not plagiarism its sampling, calm your asses down. Sometimes it happens you got a direct copy yeah, but in all these above cases these are completely different songs. There are only 7 notes on this planet to work with guys!! Sampling a sequence or melody is not plagiarism in my opinion. If that's plagiarism on these levels then every song is plagiarism and we just don't know it or point it out cause no one gives a shit. You do get a "Creep" feel in Lana's "Get Free" song especially after its been pointed out but, I know for myself I would consider it an honor that someone used my popular melody to create there own new song. I mean everyone knows "Creep" I am def not feeling when listening to "Get Free" that Lana has stolen Radioheads entire song. She claims it wasn't even inspired by the tune and I believe her. I write songs all the time and come across stuff later on where I think that sounds like my song or same chords, so did they steal from me or me them, if neither of us knew about each others songs. I mean maybe they could have heard my song and been influenced or myself been subconciously influenced by there's at some point and didn't even know it.
I love RadioHead and Thom York and after all the success they have achieved with there music along this journey of life, I cant imagine them actually trying to do this to another artist. This has to be a label or management influencing thing. To me its pure bullshit. In any case for me I love them both, if I had to pick "Creep" by radio head is the ultimately better song but Lana Del Rey did not steal it for her song "Get Free" she sampled the under line melody thats about it.
Here is an example where I took Lana Del Reys "West Coast" Instrumental and wrote a new song over the top of it and had it reproduced by my head Sound Legion producer 
Lana Del Rey West Coast Instrumental Version - Shavon Bonnie Legion Never Never Land
My Official Original Version - Shavon Bonnie Legion - Never Never Land
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